BRS leader Kadiyam Srihari, daughter Kadiyam Kavya join Congress in Telangana

ముఖ్యమంత్రి శ్రీ రేవంత్ రెడ్డి గారు మరియు ఏఐసీసీ ఇంచార్జీ శ్రీమతి దీపా దాస్ మున్షీ గారి సమక్షంలో కాంగ్రెస్ పార్టీలో చేరిన బీఆర్ఎస్ ఎమ్మెల్యే కడియం శ్రీహరి గారు మరియు కడియం కావ్య. pic.twitter.com/QIXmfHeW5S

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‘To serve people’

For various reasons, people are moving away from BRS. So, to serve the people and to do something for the constituency, he will take a call (on joining the Congress party), Srihari had said.

Kavya, who was the BRS candidate from Warangal, also announced her decision to opt out citing recent allegations of corruption and phone tapping against the previous K Chandrashekar Rao-led regime.

The allegations have lowered the party’s prestige, she had said.

In a shot in the arm for Congress, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mayor Vijaya Laxmi R Gadwal joined the party here on Saturday.

Revanth Reddy and other Congress leaders called on Vijaya Laxmi’s father and BRS Rajya Sabha member K Keshava Rao at the latter’s residence.

Earlier on Friday, Keshava Rao said that he would return to the Congress fold.

Keshava Rao, designated as secretary general, was a key figure in the BRS party and chief architect of the party’s several programmes. Before joining hands with KCR, he had worked as PCC president of undivided Andhra Pradesh.

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